Modern dwellings in town and country adapted to American wants and climate with a treatise on furniture and decoration (1878)
Holly, Henry Hudson, 1834-1892 · New York, Harper & brothers, publishers · leaf 190
. Here the back is given an agreeable inclina-tion without any sacrifice of strength being entailed. Objections are sometimes made to straight work on account of its ap-parent stiffness. If curves are thought necessary, however, they may beeffected in some cases by bending the grain, as in Fig. 18.… … Fiff. IS Curved-back Chair. 186 MODERN DWELLINGS. CHAPTER IX. LEGITIMATE WOOD-WORK.
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